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What’s going on in the world of music documentary, a little earlier than usual ’cause we’ll be on vacation next week.

Blur’s reformation has already produced one music film we love (and just last week brought to the US for their biggest stateside shows to date). Now the Britpop standard-bearers are returning to the big screen with a film tracking the recent progress of their six-years-and-counting second act and featuring a couple of blockbuster recent gigs.

According to Music-News.com, New World Towers, set to hit select UK cinemas December 2 (as-yet-undetermined international release to follow), chronicles how an unexpected tour break in Hong Kong led to The Magic Whip, the first album by the original Blur quartet in 16 years. The movie also draws extensively on the band’s summer Hyde Park show and a return Hong Kong concert, and reportedly delves further into the complicated relations between frontman Damon Albarn and guitarist Graham Coxon, which formed the emotional core of the 2010 doc No Distance Left to Run (see our review of which here). Continue reading →